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Webster 1913 Edition

(krĭk)

Noun.

[See

The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it.

[Obs.]

Johnson.

Noun.

[The same as

creek

a bending, twisting. See

A painful, spasmodic affection of the muscles of some part of the body, as of the neck or back, rendering it difficult to move the part.

To those also that, with a

crick

or cramp, have thei necks drawn backward.

Holland.

[Cf. F.

cric

A small jackscrew.

Knight.

Noun.

[See Creak.]

The creaking of a door. [Not used.]

A spasmodic affection of some part of the body, as of the neck or back; local spasm or cramp.